The Radical Homosexual Agenda-Targeting Our Schools

by   Michael Foust                                                                                                                                       Vol. XXII, No. 3, March 2009

As illustrated children's books go, King & King starts off innocently enough: "On the tallest mountain above the town lived a queen, the young prince, and the crown kitty. The queen had ruled for many long years, and she was tired of it."

The queen, it seems, wanted to step down so that her son could become king. First, though, she wanted him to find a wife. So a search ensued - far and wide - for the perfect princess.

But in the end he chose none of them, instead opting for another prince. (Yes, a prince.) The short twenty-nine-page book ends with a "gay wedding," the proverbial kiss, the queen shedding a tear of joy, and, the reader is told, the two men living "happily ever after." King & King, a slick colorful book aimed at children six and up, was at the heart of a controversy in North Carolina earlier this year when a first-grade girl checked it out of her public school library - much to her parents' dismay.

"I was flabbergasted," her father, Michael Hartsell, told the Associated Press. "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs." And conservatives say the book is only the tip of the iceberg in the nationwide debate over homosexuality in the public schools. Homosexual activists have made significant inroads in recent years, and their advances have come in both big – and small – town America. For instance:

• More than three thousand schools in all fifty states have Gay/Straight Alliance Clubs, student-led groups set up to promote homosexual issues within the schools. Many are in middle schools. The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national homosexual activist organization, is the primary catalyst.

• The public school system in Boyd County, Kentucky, allegedly forced middle and high school students to participate in diversity and tolerance training, telling them homosexuality cannot be changed and warning them not to say otherwise. The Alliance Defense Fund, a pro-family legal organization, filed a federal lawsuit in February on behalf of concerned parents.

• The Montgomery County, Maryland, public school system developed sexual-education curriculum for eighth- and tenth-graders which claimed that Jesus "said absolutely nothing at all about homosexuality' and that being homosexual is similar to being left-handed. It also noted that some Baptist churches once defended racial segregation implying that conservative Baptists today are wrong in opposing homosexuality. The pro-family legal group Liberty Counsel filed suit on behalf of two conservative groups and concerned parents, and in May a federal judge ruled against the school system, preventing the course from going into effect. [BP]